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(During the past week Jane has made a spectacular improvement in the use of her right arm, with lesser but steady improvement in the left. There have been other good signs physically; she has also improved considerably in her daily walks, etc. The body changes for the better seem to be long-lasting—already they have existed for longer periods than any others in recent years. Needless to say we are both very pleased.)

It is obvious not only that Ruburt is improving but that one important area of the body has begun to clear itself to a large degree. Do you agree with me?

Then since we have that established, let me tell you that it is of course no coincidence, for the right arm was the area first affected. The body has its own patterns of behavior, connected with beliefs; but in this memory pattern there are tracings, and these are beginning to be erased in the order in which the condition was established. Do you follow me?

The arm, by its sudden freedom, also serves as a model to Ruburt consciously, and also for the rest of the body to follow. He is aware of the feeling of freedom consciously, physically, as a portion now of daily experience and comparison. He did not have this before, and so it is highly important symbolically and literally that improvements will continue and be used as a model.

The feeling of warmth and identification with the legs, and sensations throughout the whole lower body, is also highly significant and necessary. Changes are occurring there physically, and circulation being increased to those areas. There are muscles and tendons that are thawing out, hence the body is acclimating itself to new conditions.

As I told you in our last session, the original beliefs behind the symptoms have largely vanished. Some are still coming to light. The body condition reflects subsidiary beliefs about the body that he mobilized for the other purposes that now no longer operate.

Some of these subsidiary beliefs are already beginning to melt, hence the improvements noted. Others await only physical proving-out in experience, and the time necessary in your terms for the body to readjust at an even rate—that is, an overall body of motion will be newly established.

While the condition reigned there was a characteristic overall body position and method of behavior that operated as a whole, and in line with his beliefs. It was organized, each portion of the body participating to give you the overall modus operandi.

Now that is changing. The changing entails adjustments at all body levels, so there are in-between periods, so to speak, physically in your terms, as all portions of the body react to any given improvement.

In the meantime Ruburt is aware of sensation that before was largely deadened. The old condition had its own balance. The improvements will follow their own rhythm as the body sets up a new balance in compensation. Some of this has to do with energy patterns and flows.

He has done well following my suggestions, particularly going outside. The squatting he performed (last Friday night) should be repeated once daily at least, for it reinforces the idea of letting go with the body.

The body can stand two more of the small vitamin C’s a day now.

At the same “time” his body kept trying to assert its privileges and natural life, but he saw it as a tool to work. He understands now a good deal of this, but I want to put it in form for him. Even his writing time therefore became frenzied. He did not live in the moment, or know his body’s present reality. Sensations and impulse were deadened, unless they could be translated into “work.”

Now this did finally become so reflected that feeling shunted aside threatened his work, and he finally recognized this. He was afraid of out-of-bodies precisely because he did not have a good enough footing in the present. He did not have the needed support.

The body’s weight was kept down for the same reasons, because he felt according to those old beliefs, that the body’s sustenance and substance in physical reality was not important in regard to his work. These ideas are also vanishing now. The body with weight and substance might be unmanageable, filled with too much energy, and therefore want the physical activity he thought he must deny it for his work. It is not a matter of what he ate, but chemically what he did with the nourishment.

(10:50. Jane had been “really out.” She was already aware of more from Seth waiting for her, she said. Now she was extremely relaxed; she has had many relaxation sessions since this series from Seth began a few weeks ago. Her body felt like water, and also warm. I described the good news in the session to her. “I’m going to light a cigarette, get myself together, and go back to the session....” 11:02.)

Now: all of Ruburt’s presently-past beliefs added up to his physical condition—his beliefs in the nature of time, work, the body, his particular nature—they all tied in together perfectly.

Each person’s personal reality has the same kind of unity. There is nothing that does not fit into the picture. There were achievements and joys along the way, and these should not be forgotten or minimized. They were all the result of beliefs also. Ruburt believed that they were only achieved by neglecting the body. He realizes now that the body’s reality is the framework through which all must come in this life, and that limiting its vitality will eventually end up limiting all experience and all “work.”

The sitting down, whether on a chair or the toilet, has to do with the fear of letting the body go. Where the toilet is concerned the ideas of time enter in, where he did not want to take time out. Everything as given last week to be continued then, with the added suggestions. These are geared to his condition.